Playing the Return of Risk

With the end of the Fed's QE2 in sight, anticipate rising volatility, and profit from it.

The coming end of QE2 continues to dominate global markets, even though you're probably as tired of reading about it as this columnist is of writing about it.

But, just as risk markets began to rally months ahead of the actual start last November of the Federal Reserve's program to purchase an additional $600 billion of Treasury securities, these same markets may be beginning to anticipate the end of the central bank's buying.